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Article: Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore.(Review)
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 1999
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Francis Abernethy, Patrick Mullen, and Alan Govenar, eds. Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore. Denton: U of North Texas P, 1996. 364 pp. $29.95.
Juneteenth Texas is the latest in a long and sometimes distinguished line of publications from the Texas Folklore Society. This one features twenty articles, plus three appendices which provide information about photographic archives, museums, and other resources for the celebration, preservation, and study of African American life in Texas. Editors Patrick Mullen and Alan Govenar devote most of the space in their "Preface" to a very nervous acknowledgment of the "volatile nature of writing about race ...